Barg'in Ireland

Last weekend, Daniel, a co-worker of mine invited me an Anna for a weekend boating trip on his father's barge. A barge for all those who don't know is a long flat boat used for transporting stuff. The barges that exist in ireland were used to move goods around the country using the system of canals that were built by the english back in the day. They, of course, have long been replaced with trucks, and the 100 or so barges that have survived are all now in private hands. A community of barge-lovin people have emerged who spend weekends barging around the country with no real purpose; daniel's family own the oldest irish barge in existence at 160 years old...that's a few decades older than canada! Speaking of old things, the evening before embarking, we visited Ireland's oldest pub which has dated back to 800AD! The weekend was great...we played Risk, drank lots of beer and ate lots of food.

That was last weekend, this weekend was spent in Belfast. Yesterday we visited many sites...the coolest was seeing Hotel Europa "The World's most Bombed Hotel". On Sunday, i was actually working in Belfast...we launched the newest version of the software that my team is working on! Woohoo!


A barge